Travis Mayfield

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Travis Mayfield is the Director of Audience Engagement at Q13FOX and Tribune Broadcasting Seattle where he oversees the social media and digital strategy on all platforms.

Travis started his career in broadcast journalism at NBC’s Today Show in New York City, followed up with a year at KHQ-TV in Spokane all while still attending Gonzaga University. After earning a degree from GU Travis went to Montana where he produced, reported and anchored for NBC Montana.

Travis returned to Washington to work as a special projects reporter at KNDO-TV in Yakima before returning to Spokane to work as KXLY-TV’s consumer reporter.

Travis came home to Seattle in 2006. He first served as a reporter for KOMO News on the radio and television. He was then promoted to Community Network Manager, Executive Producer and Director of Digital Social Strategy for the Fisher Interactive Network before landing at Q13 FOX.

Travis’ work has been honored by the Society of Professional Journalists, RTNDA, the Associated Press and in 2012 he received a Fisher Communications “Innovation” award. Travis was most recently nominated for an Emmy in 2012 and he serves on the board of governors of NATAS NW.

Travis was born in Oregon, raised in Port Orchard, Washington and now lives in Seattle’s Montlake neighborhood. He and his husband are the proud dad of twins.

Follow Travis on Twitter and Instagram @TravisMayfield (and you’ll probably get to see lots of photos of those twins).

Recent Articles

LOS ANGELES, California — 40 days of eating the same thing at Chipotle just wasn’t enough for one 23-year-old LA man. Andrew Hawryluk is on day 153 and still going. Hawryluk says he orders the same thing every day, white rice, chicken, guacamole and lettuce topped with Tabasco chipotle sauce. He then snaps a photo of the meal and his receipt and posts the evidence on his website Chipotlife. 💯 www.chipotlife.com A photo posted by Andrew Hawryluk (@gopnik) on May […]

SEATTLE — Did he suffer any ARRRRR-m pain? Was he headed to StARRRRR-bucks? ARRRRR you ready for more pirate jokes? The Washington State Patrol grabbed the Internet’s attention Tuesday when they tweeted a photo of a skeleton — fully adorned in a pirate costume — riding in the passenger seat of the car. According to Trooper Joseph McClain; this passenger complained of some minor injuries during a collision yesterday. pic.twitter.com/Nrbv1PbhrT — Trooper Chris Webb (@wspd2pio) June 30, 2015 What’s going […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Friday morning the Supreme Court issued its ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide and within hours couples poured into courthouses to marry in states that previously had prohibited it. Here are some of the couples who have said ‘I do’ already today. Congrats to Jack and George, the first gay couple married in Dallas, TX http://t.co/tf1nunsWPt #pics #reddit pic.twitter.com/Sw59S6Ojpa — Reddit Subreddits (@subredditsbot) June 26, 2015 Jack Evans & George Harris waited 55 years for this moment. Couple […]

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana — Anyone who has seen Jurassic World has seen actor Chris Pratt ‘training’ velociraptors. Even if you haven’t seen the movie yet, you have seen the stance. It’s so iconic, it has become a bit of a meme on the internet with folks trying to recreate it. #raptorsquad #clevergirls #chrispratt #raptorshotremake #prattkeeping #jurassiczookeeper #zoorassicworld A photo posted by Susie Rodenkirchen Walker (@susiethefivetoedsloth) on Jun 17, 2015 at 7:23am PDT Now Pratt himself has gotten in on the […]

For many of us one of the first things we do after getting out of bed each morning is drink a cup of coffee. But the folks at Asap Science say we’ve all been doing it wrong. Turns out the optimal time for drinking any caffeinated beverage is when our body isn’t at its peak production of a hormone called Cortisol. So when SHOULD we be drinking our coffee? Watch the 2:00 minute video below to determine the best time […]

SEATTLE — Thursday’s police shooting in Olympia has sparked new conversations about policing and race issues. As is expected, debate is getting especially heated. But before you heat up and jump in, here are things to keep in mind about Internet comment threads. Most people don’t comment online about news stories. You may see 400 comments on a Facebook post, but metrics say more than 100,000 people have likely seen the post without commenting. To break through the Internet noise, […]

BRISBANE, Australia — Madeline Stuart is an aspiring teen model looking for an agent. She might just get one now that her story has gone wildly viral on Facebook this week. The teen from Brisbane Australia has Down syndrome and she wants to be a model to help change the way others view the condition. “Modeling will help change society’s view of people with Down Syndrome, exposure will help to create acceptance in life,” wrote Maddy on Facebook. Maddy wrote […]

JERUSALEM, Israel — College Professor Sydney Engelberg reportedly encourages his students to bring their children to class. Recently an unnamed student, a new mom, did just that. Then when her baby started to cry she tried to stand up and leave the class at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. But according to Engelberg’s daughter her father stopped the woman and took the baby into his arms. “To soothe the baby himself,” she wrote on Facebook. Engleberg then nonchalantly continued the rest […]

TACOMA, Washington — Florence ‘SeeSee’ Rigney just celebrated her 90th birthday making her the oldest working registered nurse in the U.S. Coworkers packed the halls of Tacoma General Hospital last week to surprise SeeSee with flowers, a tiara and a special proclamation from Gov. Jay Inslee. Video of the surprise was captured on camera by a coworker and shared online. “Just imagine all the changes SeeSee has seen in her life since she graduated from high school — in 1943,” […]